It's been pointed out countless times that anyone who enters the Trump orbit ends up being permanently sullied and having their reputations forever tarnished. That would be the appropriate perspective if the Trump administration was anything like a standard-issue government team.
But Trumpworld is not a tribe of bureaucrats or politicians. It's a mob of gangsters, a pit of slithering vipers who are perpetually poked, prodded, and pitted against each other by a twisted, brutish handler. These hoodlums are not the pick of the racketeer litter, for they have been recruited by the worst Don in the history of mobsterdom. They couldn't shake down an undersized third grader for his lunch money.
The only skill possessed by their boss is the ability to sacrifice even the most slavishly devoted of his gang members in the blink of an evil eye when they are no longer useful to him. Trump's henchmen don't end up sullied--they end up in prison or as clinically dead ex-professionals.
The bodies have been piling up for months. Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn, foreign policy advisor George Papadopolous, and deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates are headed to prison. Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is headed to the big house. Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen will have to cooperate with Mueller and the Justice Department if he wants to be around to watch his children grow up.
This week saw the public slaughter of several members of the Trump gang.
Trump's personal doctor of 35 years, who went so far as to allow his patient to dictate his medical reports, found himself met at the back door of his office in the early morning hours by three thugs who ransacked his office.
Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was roasted by the Washington press corps for her latest blatant misstatements about the Stormy Daniels debacle--Trump has used her so often to spread so many lies that he has reduced her to a dead woman talking.
Rudy Guiliani warned the Mueller team in a Fox News appearance not to go after Ivanka Trump. But when asked about Jared Kushner's future, Guiliani declared him "disposable." Jared is family, which in most mobs would mean that he would be safe, but this is the "kiss of death" in Trumpworld.
And in a classic "hire a hit man to hit the other hit man" move, Don Trumpleone turned on Guilani this morning, just 24 hours after Rudy doomed Kushner. Looks like Rudy has one more day to pull together a memo answering all of the questions about Stormy Daniels and bagman Michael Cohen before he is buried at midnight in a New Jersey landfill.